Indira Yadira Ariana García Varela

Indira (Chihuahua, México) is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish and Portuguese department and she is currently pursuing the Museum Studies Certificate at this same institution. She has a wide range of interests in literature and visual arts, including drama and poetry. Her research focuses on the common ground within the visuality of language and pictorial artefacts. She is particularly interested in biopolitics in the arts to understand the continuity of the “old” production with the “new” highlighting the genesis of the arts, incorporating a variety of literary genres, and various artistic medias such as painting, theater and photography. Her research is mostly trans-geographic and anachronic.

She received her BA in Art History and Philosophy and a minor in Museum Studies, from Arizona State University in 2012. She also received her MA in Spanish Literature from the same institution, where she wrote a thesis focusing on rethinking the image of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, under the supervision of Dr. Emil Volek. Indira has also received an MA in Spanish from the University of Kansas in 2017. During 2018-2019, she was the vice-president of the Graduate Association of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (GRASP). Outside academia, she is editor of Digitus Indie Publisher and the founder and curator of Kantart Photo Gallery.